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Yesterday, one day ahead of the 2012 CES, I saw what’s supposedly the next-generation iPad. I’d show you a picture, but there’s honestly nothing to be seen. Think iPhone 4 to iPhone 4S: this device so resembles the iPad 2 that differences are only obvious when they’re placed next to each other. From the back, you could walk past this new iPad on display and have no idea that anything had changed.

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Skeptic? Well, here's what they say:

Last year, on the first day of the 2011 CES, iLounge was the first to show pictures of a nearly final iPad 2 shell—one that looked virtually identical to what was announced, apart from tweaks to the bottom speaker grille and side switch. The curves and proportions were the same, the various elements in the right places, and so on. No one was 100% certain as to what was inside the new iPad, or even that it would be called “iPad 2,” but there were educated guesses that it would be faster, more powerful, and have twin cameras. This year, the smart money is on similar upgrades, but with improved image quality across the screen and cameras as a paramount focus. Those will be improvements worth getting seriously excited about.

*GASP!* Apple reveals a new revision of their hardware the moment their entire fanbase switched from iOlderDevice to iSlightlyNewerDevice to innitiate another switch, this time to the iNewDevice while it is likely that they are working on an iDeviceThatWillBeNewNextYear!

*GASP!* Apple reveals a new revision of their hardware the moment their entire fanbase switched from iOlderDevice to iSlightlyNewerDevice to innitiate another switch, this time to the iNewDevice while it is likely that they are working on an iDeviceThatWillBeNewNextYear!

Guys, this is more about the device itself than the fact that it exists. No fucking DUH there's going to be an ipad 2, but the details are not a "duh" part, and the shell of a device can often tell us in advance about the capabilities of it.

This is about an actual happening. This is a thread where somebody reported seeing a new hardware model. The hardware model is something that seems to actually exist. In fact there's pictures. This is actual news because it's about a happening.

The stuff you tend to post is just editorial articles more fit for the discussion forum, because they're not about anything concrete happening, just personal guesses by internet people about the future.

Guys, this is more about the device itself than the fact that it exists. No fucking DUH there's going to be an ipad 2, but the details are not a "duh" part, and the shell of a device can often tell us in advance about the capabilities of it.

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I was focusing on the "knowing life it's going to be a rather minor update judging from the fact that Apple releases minor tweaks periodically" aspect.